Calorie counting is a myth...this Video proves it.

[Jezebelle]

I agree with Adonis here!! Ive been logging cals for a month now and dropping pounds again. Its simple you just gotta be consistrent with it.

Exactly.  The more consistent you are, the easier it is to know how much to adjust if needed.  

[Eyeball Chambers]

I agree with Adonis here!! Ive been logging cals for a month now and dropping pounds again. Its simple you just gotta be consistrent with it.

I've lost weight slowly, no more than two pounds (of fat) a week.  Protein intake on average is around 105g daily (weight is about 180 right now), I'm stronger in every movement.  

[Jezebelle]

A lot of bullshit in that video. And let me guess, his magic whey proteins are going to fix all these metabolic problems, allowing one to increase calories dramatically while losing weight/fat.

I especially liked the part where he used a 19th Century Circus  Photograph of a woman with Lipodystrophy.  

[outby43]

I agree with Adonis here!! Ive been logging cals for a month now and dropping pounds again. Its simple you just gotta be consistrent with it.

You have so much muscle that you could probably shake your dick and burn off 2 lbs.  I can see the Dr. point.  He never indicated that this was the same with muscular people.  You are much more different than a random couch potato.

[Eyeball Chambers]

You have so much muscle that you could probably shake your dick and burn off 2 lbs.

haha 

[Radical Plato]

Watched the whole video, just nonsense. Just another naysayer who cant tell you the most efficient way to lose fat.

[Jezebelle]

You have so much muscle that you could probably shake your dick and burn off 2 lbs.  I can see the Dr. point.  He never indicated that this was the same with muscular people.  You are much more different than a random couch potato.

Yes because everybody is William Shatner, a Squirrel or a 19th Century Circus Freak with a rare Congenital Disease.  The entire thing was just ludicrous and bizarre.


Connelly must be bored or in need of some new investment property if he is hawking this crap, Kevin Trudeau style.  Next thing you know we will turn on the TV at 3 am and see Scott with a new book, "Supplements THEY don`t want YOU to know about.

[Army of One]

I think a big point that he's making is being lost by alot of people here.He's saying that you cant pinpoint the exact amount of fat you lose per week by simply saying this week im going to go 1000 calories under maintenance a day in my eating while also burning 500 calories a day cardio per week so Ill be losing 3 pounds of fat a week and if I do this for 10 weeks Ill lose exactly 30 pounds.He's saying it isnt an exact science on pinpointing how much exactly you can lose, which is true.

[Eyeball Chambers]

I think a big point that he's making is being lost by alot of people here.He's saying that you cant pinpoint the exact amount of fat you lose per week by simply saying this week im going to go 1000 calories under maintenance a day in my eating while also burning 500 calories a day cardio per week so Ill be losing 3 pounds of fat a week and if I do this for 10 weeks Ill lose exactly 30 pounds.He's saying it isnt an exact science on pinpointing how much exactly you can lose, which is true.

I'm an amateur, and I was pretty damn accurate.  After calculating my basel energy expenditure, I played with caloric intake until I was losing calories at the rate I desired, and I only needed to re-adjust my intake to keep weight loss consistent about monthly.

[Jezebelle]

ROFLMAO 2:50 seconds into the video Scott Connely says sarcastically- "YOU want to relate Energy and Mass in a simple and arithmetic way??? COME on...THIS is nonsense!!!!


ROFLMAAOAOAAAAGAHGAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

Tell Albert Einstein that E = mc2, the Mass Energy Equivalence, is Nonsense.


This guy is nothing more than a rambling Mountebank.  A charlatan who cashes in on the fact that his audience doesn`t know what HE is talking about.  Works every time.

[TrueGrit]

So what "diet" does he advocate ......or is he just saying it's a genetic lottery and that's that - unless you buy his potions and fart powders ?

[pellius]

How do you guys know how many calories you're burning day to day?

[Jezebelle]

How do you guys know how many calories you're burning day to day?

You don`t really need to know that.  What would be the point?  If you are in a deficit than you are obviously burning everything you ingested.

[bigbobs]

Mindspin doesn't really believe the video, he's just trying to get a reaction out of people like he has been in various other of threads lately.  I didn't fall for it and waste 11 minutes of my life by clicking the link and watching, although I guess I did lose 2 by reading this thread and replying

[bigbobs]

Honest questions Adonis, curious of your thoughts here:

1)  0.5 to 1 gram per lb bodyweight is a pretty big range, if you had to narrow it down would you be closer to the 1 gram or the 0.5 gram figure?

2)  You gave a starting point of 2500 calories.  If one was to go extreme and only eat, say 1500 calories per day to speed up the fat loss even if he needs 2800 calories per day to maintain his weight, would the protein requirement at 1500 cals be higher than it would be if one were to stick to 2500 cal or even 2000 calories?

[Cavalier22]

what if you ALL of your calories came from Texas Pete and you almost immediately shit it right out? I bet you could drink 5000 calories of that shit daily and lose weight.

[The_Infidel]

First of all that was Jerry Lewis not William Shatner.

Second, I think people are missing the greater point of what he was saying.  It's not as simple as calories in/calories out.  I think that if people stop and think they will realize they they probably know people who demonstrate this.  There are a lot of variables and Insulin is an important one.

[Natural Man]

GENETICS....

[Oldschool Flip]

So Tell me Mindspin, what other way is there for a human being to lose fat besides being in a Caloric Deficit via reducing caloric intake or expending enough calories through exercise.  Magic?

Counting calories is just an easy method to use in order to determine if you need to adjust up or down your caloric intake.

The only thing mythical is any claim to the contrary.   So tell me again, what other way is there?

Liposuction.

[Coach is Back!]

Uh Calorie Reduction or Caloric Expenditure is THE ONLY modus operandi to lose fat.

By counting calories you then know if you need to reduce them in order to facilitate fat loss.


Its really not that complicated.

Tell me, what other way is there for a human being to lose fat?  Magic?

Tried explaining something similar to this to you years ago and I completely owned you, you were just to retarded to understand so I gave up. Dr. Connelly explained it very articulately.  As for the highlighted....you'd never understand.

[Wiggs]

First off the whole video is 90 min. Second he didn't say you don't lose weight from not lowering your calories, he said it wasn't as simple as a calorie being a calorie, other factors were involved.  Sort of like how I told Panda and wavelength, you can store fat while being under your required daily calories depending on how many calories you ate in a setting.

You gotta love how some of you morons will disagree with a respected doctor, but agree with a "some guy" on the internet.

 

[PJim]

People are missing the point. You have to be in a deficit to lose. Simple as. Stop overcomplicating it with the whole breakdown of what every single god damn maco and micro nutrient does and eat an adequate amount of foods from a wide variety of sources. NATURE sets the limits and boundries of the human physique, not the person. What is it with people and the mentality that they can simply work out loads, eat loads of protein but little else because protein is "magic" and be better off for it. It simply doesn't work that way, you can't alter reality.

[Van_Bilderass]

Second he didn't say you don't lose weight from not lowering your calories, he said it wasn't as simple as a calorie being a calorie, other factors were involved.  Sort of like how I told Panda and wavelength, you can store fat while being under your required daily calories depending on how many calories you ate in a setting.

You gotta love how some of you morons will disagree with a respected doctor, but agree with a "some guy" on the internet.

 

I'm pretty sure he said calories have NOTHING to do with how much fat you store and how much you weigh, and that is simply ridiculous. Of course hormones matter in how much muscle you retain, in what pattern you store fat, and etc. Of course it's important to eat adequate protein (cue wavelength). But him showing pics of rodents and people with pathological conditions was ridiculous. Yeah we're all on prednisone. 

Who cares if you store triglycerides during a snapshot of the day. You are always storing and releasing fat. It's the total daily energy balance that determines the net effect.

[Gino30]

http://progenexusa.com/Blog/post/Dr-Connelly-Talks-About-Insulin-Body-Weight-and-Energy-Production.aspx

Adonis, can't wait to see you chime in.

This is like saying the world is flat.

You're dumb..........no, seriously

[JP_RC]

I also believe that overall calories are what determine fat loss or fat gain. An optimal protein and carb intake for muscle maintenance and that's it.

Of course a person may have different metabolic rate or a better tolerance for carbs, but the caloric deficit will determine fat loss.